Category: Winter Olympics

Latest medal table | Full event scheduleFeel free to get in touch on email or tweet @Kate_ohalloran 5.36am GMT We had the women’s curling gold medal match today, and, despite the parochial support of their home crowd, the Garlic Girls were unable to tr…

Latest medal table | Full event scheduleFeel free to get in touch on email or tweet @Kate_ohalloran 5.36am GMT We had the women’s curling gold medal match today, and, despite the parochial support of their home crowd, the Garlic Girls were unable to tr…

Decision comes after two athletes from Russia failed drug testsHowever IOC said Russian Olympic ban could be overturned soonRussian athletes will not be allowed to march under their country’s flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony because of their two faile…

GB lose 5-3 at Winter Olympics after Eve Muirhead’s late errors‘I’m devastated it didn’t turn out how we wanted,’ she saysGreat Britain’s women’s curling team finished fourth at the Winter Olympics as Japan won an attritional bronze medal match. Defeat…

USA win first gold medal in curling with 10-7 win over SwedenJohn Shuster double takeout earns decisive five-point eighth endLatest medal table | Full event scheduleThe United States have won their first ever gold medal in curling with a stunning upset…

USA win first gold medal in curling with 10-7 win over SwedenJohn Shuster double takeout earns decisive five-point eighth endLatest medal table | Full event scheduleThe United States have won their first ever gold medal in curling with a stunning upset…

Czech wins second gold of Games, in snowboard slalom‘I will think about this moment until the end of my life’Ester Ledecka confirmed her position as the snow queen of these Winter Olympics – in fact, arguably, any Winter Games – with a supreme victory …

Latest medal table | Full event scheduleFeel free to get in touch with Richard on email 5.14am GMT Afternoon everyone, thanks for joining me for the penultimate day of icy action from Pyeongchang. After two weeks of thrills, spills and chills, the fin…

Medal takes nation’s overall tally to five in PyeongchangMorgan holds on to third after series of falls from rivals on final runBilly Morgan has won snowboard big air bronze to claim Britain’s record fifth Winter Olympics medal of the Games. Related: C…

Primarily a snowboarder, the young Czech stunned the skiing world by winning the super-G in Pyeongchang last weekendAmid the many spectacular performances at these Winter Olympics no athlete has caused more jaws to drop than Ester Ledecka, a 22-year-ol…

The fetishising of Team GB feeds into the notion of medal hunting, of glossy PR at the expense of sport for allIn medical practice the phrase “the dose is the poison” is sometimes used to describe the principle that an excess of anything can …

Nadezhda Sergeeva, who denies taking banned medication, appeared in the video posted to social media earlier during the Winter OlympicsA Russian athlete who has tested positive for a banned substance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics had recently appe…

• Sweden defeat puts Team GB in play-off against Japan for bronze• ‘We came up short but did ourselves proud,’ GB skip Muirhead saidBy the time the crowd at the Gangneung Curling Centre had got to their feet to celebrate South Korea’s Garlic Girls reac…

* Available to UK viewers only. Team GB’s curlers were beaten 10-5 by Sweden in the semi-finals but can still salvage a bronze medal in Pyeongchang on Saturday. An error by Eve Muirhead in the seventh end allowed Anna Hasselborg to steer Sweden ad…

Nine-time champions beaten by team rated at 60-1 before OlympicsGermany hold off late rally by Canadians to set up final with OARCanada’s topsy-turvy Olympics continued on Friday as Germany stunned the nine-time Olympic champions 4-3 in the men’s ice h…

American women used to be a fixture on the skating podium at the Winter Olympics. But now failure is the new normalA mentally spent Mirai Nagasu told reporters she couldn’t wait to fly home after ending her Olympics on Friday afternoon with a disappoin…

Americans were aiming to win 37 medals heading into the GamesAthletes such as Nathan Chen and Lindsey Jacobellis missed medalsIt was a sweeping goal, spelled out on a colorful, full-screen slide and presented to leaders of the US Olympic Committee in a…